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• milton in yosemite: PARADISE LOST AND THE NATIONAL PARKS IDEA

  - 2008-04-01

  ABSTRACT "Milton in Yosemite" investigates the reasons why certain English and American visitors to Yosemite so often described the valley in religious terms, particularly in terms of an Eden. Reformed Protestantism developed a peculiarly strong nostalgia for Eden that John Milton gave a powerful form in Paradise Lost. The poem's...

  Tags: America, angel, Boston, California, Cambridge, Earth, Emerson, garden, Park, Richard, Robert, temple, University of Oxford, Valley, Yale University

• Books received

  - 2005-09-01

  ADNETT, NICK, and STEPHEN HARDY. The European Social Model: Modernisation or Evolution? Chelten-2005. Pp. 244. Cloth $95.00. AGELL, JONAS, MICHAEL KEEN, and ALFONS J. WEICHENREIDER, eds. Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 228. Cloth $35.00. AGLIETTA, MICHEL, and ANTOINE REBERIOUX. Corporate Governance Adrift:...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, Innovation, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2004-09-01

  31NETWORK. India Infrastructure Report 2004: Ensuring Value for Money. New York: Oxford University press, 2004. Pp. 347. Paper $35.00. ADAMS, WALTER, and JAMES W. BROCK. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. 2d ed. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 380. Paper $24.95....

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)

  - 2000-10-01

  Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. By William P. Alston. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 327. Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. By Aristotle. Ed. Roger Crisp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xlii, 213. Metaphysics Book...

  Tags: Atlantic, Books, Cambridge, Leadership, Newton, Plato, Princeton University, Robert, Skeptic, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• BOOKS RECEIVED.

  - 1999-07-01

  Adelard of Bath, Conversations with his Nephew: On the Same and the Different, Questions on Natural Science and On Birds. Cambridge Medieval Classics. By Adelard of Bath. Ed. Charles Burnett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. Iii, 287. Philosophy and the Many Faces of...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, Leadership, Maryland, Princeton University, Robert, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books Received

  - 1999-04-01

  Appearance in this list neither guarantees nor precludes a future review of the book. Adamson, Jane, Freadman, Richard and Parker, David (eds.), Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 294, 35.00 [pounds sterling], 12.95 [pounds sterling]. Annas, Julia, Platonic Ethics Old...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, Leadership, London, Princeton University, Robert, U.K., U.S., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford